“O Allāh, may the best of my years be its final moments, may the best of my actions be my concluding ones, and may the best of my days be the day I meet you.”

Abu Eesa said commenting on the above:

This du‘ā has been narrated from the Prophet (ṣallallāhu ‘alayhi wa sallam) but none of the chains are authentic enough to establish it as a saying of his.

Instead this athar is narrated in mursal form as a du‘ā of Abu Bakr with an acceptable chain, and collected by Ibn Abi Shaybah in his Muṣannaf, 6/65.

It has also been (weakly) narrated on the authority of Anas b. Mālik that Abu Bakr (raḍīyAllāhu ‘anhumā) would say this with a slight variation every time he would finish from the obligatory prayer.

All in all, this is a wonderful, short yet comprehensive du‘ā which truly sums up all one could wish for from one’s ‘ibādah to Allah jalla wa ‘alā – and we ask Him to allow us to be included in al-Ṣiddīq’s du‘ā and that we be with him and his friends in the gardens of our Lord, amīn.